Lighting Artist - Real-Time Environments & Mood

Keywords Studios; Orlando (FL); On-site; USD 70,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

3 weeks PTO

Medical, dental & vision insurance

401(k) with company matching

Professional development

Snacks & workspace perks

Job summary

GameSim, based in Orlando, FL, is seeking a Lighting Artist to create high-quality real-time lighting for gameplay environments, cinematics, and interactive sequences. You will translate art direction and client feedback into lighting solutions that support mood, readability, and storytelling.

The role involves hands-on production with opportunities for project-level leadership, collaboration with Art Directors, Environment and Technical Artists, VFX, Designers, Engineers, Producers, and clients.

Qualifications

• Professional experience creating lighting for games, real-time projects, animation, or related field.
• Portfolio demonstrating strong real-time lighting work.
• Strong understanding of lighting fundamentals: value, color, contrast, composition, readability.
• Experience lighting gameplay environments or interactive real-time scenes.
• Knowledge of HDR displays, tone mapping, and color theory.

Responsibilities

• Create high-quality real-time lighting for gameplay environments, levels, cinematics, and interactive sequences.
• Translate art direction and client feedback into effective lighting solutions.
• Establish mood, atmosphere, visual hierarchy, and player focus through lighting.
• Maintain readability, navigation, and combat visibility through lighting choices.
• Develop exposure, color, contrast, fog, reflections, and post-processing.
• Maintain visual consistency across environments and times of day.
• Provide feedback and coordinate lighting work with team members.

Tools

Unreal Engine 5 or another modern real-time engine

Lumen or comparable real-time GI

GPU Lightmass / baked-lighting systems

Real-time profiling / debugging tools

Photoshop or image editing

DaVinci Resolve / Nuke / After Effects

Maya / Blender / 3ds Max

Perforce / version control

Jira / Confluence / planning tools

Job description

GameSim, based in Orlando, FL, is seeking a Lighting Artist to create high-quality real-time lighting for gameplay environments, cinematics, and interactive sequences. You will translate art direction and client feedback into lighting solutions that support mood, readability, and storytelling.

The role involves hands-on production with opportunities for project-level leadership, collaboration with Art Directors, Environment and Technical Artists, VFX, Designers, Engineers, Producers, and clients.